Reporting

This story talks about how agencies working on HIV and AIDS prevention efforts in Chicago have to rely on dated records on the disease's prevalence while the Chicago Department of Public Health labors to release the latest epidemiological data.

<p>Thousands of immigrants who have lost their jobs are suffering all kind of mental disorders and they are not receiving any mental health care.</p>

<p>In California, food-makers and restaurants are battling backers of a tax on sugary drinks and junk food that could help decrease obesity.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

This is a remarkable story of healing and renewal. In 1997, photographer John Trotter was taking pictures in a Sacramento neighborhood when he was viciously assaulted and nearly killed by half a dozen young men. He recovered in Sierra Gates and later returned to the facility to learn anew how to take pictures.

This post discusses Dave Cullen's book about the 1999 Columbine massacre. Cullen argues that Eric Harris was a psychopath and Dylan Klebold was depressed and suicidal.

This piece discusses the efforts that certain nursing homes are making to meet the needs of senior Latinos, who tend rarely to live in these facilities.

This is a post I wrote about Muriel Gillick's book, The Denial of Aging, when the health care reform debate was just getting going.

<p>If Congress and President Barack Obama decide the responsibility for health insurance falls on the shoulders of individual Americans, all of us might want to pay more attention to what's going on now in the individual insurance market and to what's promised in the legislation. If having no insurance is considered rock-bottom, having individual insurance is the next floor up. Some call it "house insurance," thinking that by having it they won't lose their homes to pay for a catastrophic illness.</p>

This post is about Michael Marmot's work that looks at status as a social determinant of health outcomes.